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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Blaise Pascal

Faith, Seem, Truths

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
Blaise Pascal

Religion, Sea, Act

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Woman, Her, Trade

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men, Give, Away

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
Epicurus

Life, Cannot, Free

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
John Locke

Men, Passion, Temptation

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis Bacon

Him, Times, Question

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Saint Augustine

Perfect, Moderation, Total

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
Malcolm Forbes

Doubt, Along, Pass

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
Michelangelo

Love, Work, Age

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
Andy Rooney

Few, Actually, Workers

I'm in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it's wrong that I get fired, well, I've got enough to eat.
Andy Rooney

Feeling, Enough, Wrong

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Person, Remember, Why

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Men, Society

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.
Anne Lamott

Life, Friendship, Truth

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
Alfred A. Montapert

Faith, Power, Positive

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
Lord Byron

Help, Humanity, Thinking

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
Joseph Addison

Great, Sunshine, Blessings

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Marcel Proust

Simple, Saying, Incapable

There are many victories worse than a defeat.
George Eliot

Defeat, Worse, Victories

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.
Thomas Sowell

Might, President, Quite

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
Ausonius

Yourself, Nothing, Others

Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.
Jon Bon Jovi

Women, Fighting, Worth

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
Vincent Van Gogh

Time, Same, Master

But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.
Donald Trump

Business, Hard, Friends

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
Horace

Wrong, Pride, Between

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
Plutarch

Few, Virtues, Vices

I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.
Lil' Kim

Life, Family, Great

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Good, Others, Put

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Phyllis Diller

Baseball, Kids, Weren

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